The Story of The Steak and The Cheesecake Cop...

NYC Cops In Action

Antother tribute to my NY trip. This is a stupid video I took...

So Cat and I were walking all around New York City looking for Steak one night after Celina was gone. We walked and walked and walked and after walking too many blocks and passing too many posh and pricey places, we finally settled in on a place called Maxie's that says on it's door they have The Best Cheesecake. Yes, we were in search of a good old piece of juicy yummy all Amercian steak and we ended up at a cheesecake place.

By the time we set down, we had a faint idea that we're around the Time Square area but since we've just walked through many dark alleys to get there we've totally lost out exact GPS readout. We were tired, hungry and wanted to sit down and the word cheesecake stood out like a light tower in the dark of ocean and it calmed our nerves. Actually the Hawaiian Tropic Zone next door with the pretty bikini-clad waitresses calmed our nerves more seeing as we would be among our own people (the waitresses not the customers), but as always, good things come with a high price.

We set down at a spot by the window near the back of the restaurant, ordered our steaks and nurtured our tired spirit with some very strong drinks. After a mere few sips of our drinks, we started to notice the perculiar things in the restaurant. For example, the wait staff here are all men except for the host, a few of them were young guys but most of them looked like they've been there for way too long. And their uniform was this stained white shirt which makes them look like the waiters in those Hong Kong local diner Cha Chaan Teng 茶餐廳 except they serve you cocktails, not milk tea and steak instead of fried beef noodles. I do regret not having taken a photo of them, what an odd sight. By the way, they serve like waiters from 茶餐廳 too.

Although our steak came out too well done and we had to sent it back, we did have some amazing desserts. Cat and I shared a piece of, wait for it, triple chocolate brownie cheesecake. It was heaven like and to top off the evening, we witnessed some real NYPD action. Just like episodes out of NYPD Blues, except there were no guns and no chasing, only 3 police cars, about 9 policemen and a stunning female latino cop with all the attitude and sassiness we've only ever seen on TV or in movies. She thoroughly mesmerised us.

The night didn't end there, this is just the first of many incredible stories from my NY trip. I will write more later, for now, I just wanted to write about the cop and the cheesecake.

By the way, we realised the next day how close this place was to Time Sqaure and we really shouldn't have felt so lost. Especially when it's right under the huge ass billboard sign advertising Sex and The City. For anyone curious to know about the address, it's on the corner of 7th Ave and 49th street. hehe...